"Just like any big transition in your life, it's going to take a minute to get settled," he said. "But I think it's just how you approach it. You can look at things as a negative, like, 'I just came over and I'm still learning the offense. I'm learning this. I'm learning that.' Or you know, you can embrace it.

"And that's what I've chosen to do, is just embrace it and I know good things will come from it."

In the interview, Johnson said he is hopeful of importing a particular lesson learned from spending his first 4 1/2 seasons with the Heat, who developed him from an undrafted prospect out of Fresno State in 2014 into a combo guard who became a staple of Erik Spoelstra's previous rotations.

"More so than anything is details," he said. "They're really big on the little things, because in the NBA everybody is a good player. Everybody got to this point for a reason. You're one of the what, 500 best players in the entire world? So there's got to be little things separate those people in the NBA.

"So that was [the] thing they harped on most, was just the details."

Johnson said at Monday's shootaround that he did not have to sweat a postgame jersey exchange with Dwyane Wade amid Wade's final season.

"At my age, of 73, you have to have something to chase. I'm still chasing another championship with Erik and Micky [Arison] and with the team. And how we're going to get there? I don't know. But we're going to get there again one day. And I believe that."

$1 million raised

The "Vice Nights: Live From The Fillmore" fundraiser hosted by Micky and Madeleine Arison and Pat and Chris Riley raised more than $1 million Sunday for the Miami Heat Charitable Fund.

The beneficiaries of the event were Safe Space, Jackson Memorial Foundations Guardian Angels and the Heat's Home Strong program, which honors returning veterans.

Entertainment was provided by comedian Gary Owen and The Commodores, who featured their hits "Easy" and "Brickhouse."

Among those of the 150 in attendance were Heat players and coaches.

More than $15 million has been raised since the event's 2006 inception.